Knights Fighting In 3rd Crusades

The Crusades were launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II who acquired enthusiastic and zealous responses to his conquests. A zealous preacher known as Peter the Hermit obtained audiences on his journeys throughout France, Germany, and the Low Countries to begin a campaign. Although the campaign was awfully flawed, it still showed how much interest there was in the crusading idea. Therefore, a year later the French and Norman nobles organized a more respectable expedition that began instituting Christian values into conquered territories. However, the successes of the crusaders encouraged Turks, Egyptians, and other Muslims to set aside their differences in order to expel European Christians from the eastern Mediterranean.

Reason 1: This topic helps to identify the various accomplishments done by the crusades. Although the expeditions were not successful, it helped europe as a whole, grow as a country. This can be beneficial to students when they are learning about other aspects of Europe, as the crusades had an impact not only on the Holy Land but on the whole of Medieval Europe. Reason 2: Learning about the crusades makes students understand the quote: ‘’He who fails to learn from history is doomed to repeat it’’.

One result of the Crusades was a major shift in the way that the European economy and political attitudes were structured during. Not only did these disagreements lead to a growing involvement between church and state, but opening the door to the Muslim world also led to changed the European economy that would open the door to new wealth. The end result as far as land goes, the Byzantine empire had hoped to gain far more territory than it did but they had to settle for parts of western Anatolia and some Mediterranean islands. The crusader states were formed out of the conquered territories in the 'holy lands', along the entire eastern Mediterranean coast (modern day Israel, Syria etc.) Most future crusades were an attempt to keep these fragile

The results on the crusades were more negative than positive. Document 5 states that “Primarily Italians, had established communities in the crusader states.”

At the beginning of the second crusade the Christians and the Muslims lived side by side, but then the Muslims got greedy and said that they needed more power and land. The Muslims took over jerusalem many times, and annoyed people. Many times, such as in the 1st crusade, the Muslims captures the holy land because they got greedy and wanted more land. They took over the holy land many times and they lost it many times because they had to fight. They got greedy so they fought many battles and won so they were undefeatable.

After the people’s crusade did not work, European lords organized a proper military force that comprised of four major armies. One of the armies was led by the French lord Godfrey of Bouillon. The other three armies came from kingdoms in southern Italy. By 1097 all four of the armies had reached Constantinople and they joined forces which came up to about 30,00 soldiers.

Throughout the time period from 800 to 1500 there were several dynamic shifts in power between the Church and the nobility of western Europe. These changes would decide if Europe would be controlled by kings and lords, or ruled by the pope. During periods of prosperity in Europe power rested in the hands of the nobility, while during fragile periods of Western Europe, the church exercised more authority, as a result rule by king was better for Europe. One example of how a European king exercised authority over Europe during a peaceful time of the middle ages was during the reign of Charlemagne.

Imagine you were a Muslim (Eastern world) living in Jerusalem, and suddenly was ambushed by the Christian Crusaders (Western world), massacring all the Muslims and Jews. Before the crusades, the Christians lived with the Muslims and Jews peacefully. Then, Pope Urban II told the Christians that if they fought to take back Jerusalem, they would automatically be allowed into heaven. The Crusades have left a bad relationship between the Muslims and Christians, and also left disbenefits for them. Muslims and Christians have hated each other for many years because of the Crusades. Although there was many years of worthless fighting, the Christians and Muslims have also benefited from the Crusades.

Before the first Crusade, Western Europe had become a place with not much progress, confined from other civilizations and hidden in the Dark Ages that had gone down on Western Christendom after the collapse of the Roman Empire. At the time of the first Crusade, the Middle East and Western Europe were greatly divided. The Crusades contributed to the end of Western Europe’s global isolation by introducing an era in which Western Europe came into direct contact with the large trade routes that united their civilization with Asia.

When the Crusades were started by the Europeans and there were a series of wars against the Islamic state. We see that in 1095 the conflict lasted about 175 years and the Europeans led wars using the name of Christ. Europeans twisted the bible, gave false doctrine and used the bible as a weapon for their cause. The Europeans also attempted to use scripture to justify their violence and manipulated the words to fit their personal goals and agenda. The crusaders heart might have been in the right place, but they left devastation wherever they went.

At first knights and soldiers in the armies were of little social status. “Many knights in fact possessed little more than peasants” (Spielvogel 244). War was looked as kind of a barbaric act in the beginning and many knights could be found fighting each other. While some of this was tolerated, as they were seen as “defenders of society”, the Catholic Church decided that there should be some ground rules. At the start of the eleventh century, the church urged knights to take an oath to protect churches, and to not harm noncombatants. These rules allowed for battles to follow a civil path and to be carried out in a noble way.

In the 10th century the first crusade took place in the Holy Lands. The crusade was a medieval military expedition that the Europeans created to regain the Holy Lands from the Seljuk Turks. Throughout the first crusade many different countries, religions and people were involved, some of these were Pope Urban II, Christians, Seljuk Turks, Europeans, Muslims and Jews. In 1096-1099 people went on the first crusade to take back the Holy Land. They did this for many different reasons, some of these reasons are money, power, taking back the Holy Land and going to heaven. The people who took part in the pilgrimages to Jerusalem were to wear the sign of the cross. The first crusade commenced with Pope Urban II making a speech at the Clermont in France.

The Crusades were a series of nine wars that began when Christians accumulated the first Crusaders to go and fight to take Jerusalem from the Muslims. But though the Crusades failed in their quest to conquer Jerusalem, there were positive and negative effects. However, it is evident in many ways the results were very damaging; in the way they impacted future relationships of Christians, Muslims, and Jews; and in how terrible the 4th Crusade ended up being.

Religion has played a big part of history around the world. Through religion we have learned so much about different cultures, beliefs and Traditions. Some of the religions that we discover in history are still dominate religions until this day. The Christianity and Islam Religion are two of the most practiced religions around the world today. From Christianity and Islam you get Christians and Muslims. The Christians and Muslims during the Crusades have similar and not so similar views on personal virtues and religious practices.

The Crusades of the High Middle Ages (a.d. 1050-1300) was a period of conquest or rather, reconquest, of Christian lands taken from Muslims in the early Middle Ages. It is an era romanticized by fervent Christians as the time when Christianity secured its honorable status as the true religion of the world. The affect of the Crusades is still with us today. It sailed from Spain and Portugal to the Americas in the fifthteenth century aboard sailing ships carrying conquistadors who sought new territory and rich resources. They used the shield and sword of Christianity to justify a swift conquest of mass territory and the subjugation of the indigenous peoples; a mentality learned, indeed,